Skegness is a holidaymaker's town with tourism being by far the main industry. The winter population of just 15,000 rises to around 170,000 during the summer bringing major traffic problems - which can badly delay the crew on their way...
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Rescue a dramatic struggle becomesCold, tired and wet, the lone skipper of the yacht Wing had been without sleep for nearly two days when his yacht ran aground on the Long Sands, south of Skegness, on the morning of 5 May 2002. As rough seas...
This number of The Lifeboat is really the June number. It was almost ready to be printed when, towards the end of June, afire at the works of the Whitefriars Press, Tonbridge, destroyed nearly the whole of the type. The Committee of...
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I.—DISASTERS AT SEA. THE LIFE-BOAT TO THE RESCUE.
To lie awake listening to the storm,—to hear the rush of the wind, now moaning in the chimney, now thundering at the windows, against which the rain beats and hustles,—to...
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Western Division Drifting on rocks ST ANN'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 1138 on Saturday March 11 that MFV 7, on passage from Fishguard to Pembroke, had engine failure west of St...
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Flags out for the lifeboats From Pinner to Plumstead, Romford to Richmond, Potters Bar to Petts Wood, members of almost 100 London branches were knocking on doors between 9 and 16 March during the RNLI's London lifeboat...
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Swanage, Dorset. At 12.54 early on the morning of the 17th of January, 1960, the police told the honorary secretary that three young men who had been climbing cliffs to the west of Durlston Head were missing. The police had organised a...
NOVEMBER 8TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX During the afternoon the naval base at Brightlingsea reported that two steamers were sinking in the West Swin. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat...
With deep regret we record the following deaths; JULY 1988: John Drew, mechanic of Penlee lifeboat from 1938 to 1970 and assistant mechanic from 1933.
He was awarded a bronze medal in 1947.
NOVEMBER 1988:...
Category: Obituaries
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